How many of you remember Jackie DeShannon singing Top 10 hits “What the World Needs Now is Love” and “Put a Little Love in Your Heart?” Did you know she was from Batavia, Illinois? Born Sharon Lee Myers (8/21/44), her family originally lived on a farm in Kentucky. By...
Steepwater One day Jeff Massey saw a cargo ship docked at a port on Lake Michigan. The ships name – Steepwater. It became the moniker for the band. Over the span of their 25-year career they’ve released a dozen album and you’ve...
Lost and Found: The Case of the Missing Album 50 years ago guitarist/vocalist George Milspaugh, guitarist Dan Hurc, bass player Mickey Gentile and drummer Dean Aliotta got together to play at a Halloween barn party in rural Waterman, Illinois back in 1974. That was...
Father Robert Owen became known as “The Night Pastor,” revered for his support “to the musicians, bartenders, waiters, waitresses, singers, dancers and other who work or play in the Rush Street-Old Town areas of Chicago during the late evenings hours,” in the...
Ray Manzarek has been proclaimed to be the “architect of The Doors’ intoxicating sound.” Teamed with the iconic frontman Jim Morrison, guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer John Densmore; The Doors were certainly one of the quintessential rock bands of the late 60s....
WLS. WLUP. WCKG. WJMK. WZZN. WLS-FM, WGN. There doesn’t seem to be any major Chicago radio station that John Records Landecker (3/28/47) hasn't worked at. Best known for his trademark saying "Records truly is my middle name,” on air his popularity soared with his...
The year was 1966. The Shadows of Knight unleashed “Gloria” to the world. By April, the song would be #1 on the charts. And it went on to become the garage rock anthem of the era, recognized with its entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Let’s take a look at...
How many of you remember Jackie DeShannon singing Top 10 hits “What the World Needs Now is Love” and “Put a Little Love in Your Heart?” Did you know she was from Batavia, Illinois? Born Sharon Lee Myers (8/21/44), her family originally lived on a farm in Kentucky. By...
Personnel: Victor Angulo (guitar, vocals) Art Casado (drums, vocals), Chuck Francour (lead vocals, keyboards), Carlos Garcia (bass, vocals), Carl Driggs (lead vocals, percussion) Originally formed in Miami Florida, the funk rock band Kracker moved to Chicago in the...
Over the course of his career, jazz guitarist Nick Colionne hit scored eight #1 hits on the Billboard smooth jazz airplay charts with another nine reaching Top 10 status, and he was the only artist in that category with five #1 hits from a single album with...